Spend Definition

spĕnd

spending, spends, spent

verb

spending, spends, spent

To use up or put out; expend.

Spent an hour exercising.

American Heritage

To pay out or use up money, etc.

Webster's New World

To use up, exhaust, consume, or wear out.

His fury was spent.

Webster's New World

To pass (a period of time)

Spending hours together.

Webster's New World

To pay out (money); disburse.

Webster's New World

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noun

An amount of money spent on something.

Doubled the spend on computers.

American Heritage

The spending of money; expenditure.

The management of spend.

American Heritage

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Spend

Singular:

spend

Plural:

spends

From Middle English spenden, from Old English *spendan (attested in compounds āspendan (“to spend"), forspendan (“to use up, consume")), from Proto-Germanic *spendanÄ…, *spendōnÄ… (“to spend"), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out"). Cognate with Old High German spentōn (“to consume, use, spend") (whence German spenden (“to donate, provide")), Middle Dutch spenden (“to spend, dedicate"), Old Icelandic spenna (“to spend").

From Wiktionary
Middle English spenden partly from Old English -spendan (from Latin expendēre to expend expend) and partly from Old French despendre to weigh out dispense

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition